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Sientje Blitz - Boas

Sientje Blitz-Boas was demonstratrice en vertegenwoordigster in dienst van Opekta.

Person

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Sientje Blitz - Boas
  • Born on: Jan. 6, 1897
  • Born in: Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Died on: July 6, 1975
  • Died in: Kaapstad, Zuid-Afrika

Sientje Blitz-Boas, Londen, 1945

Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam

Rechthebbende(n) onbekend

Sientje (Sien) Boas married master diamond cutter Louis Blitz (1898-1981) in 1920 in Amsterdam.[1] They had three children: Rebecca (Beppy), born in 1921, Jacques (Jac), born in 1922, and Albert, born in 1931. The Blitz family lived in Gaaspstraat on the second floor of the same appartment building the Nieuwenburgs, the foster family Miep Gies lived with.[2] Sientje was a demonstrator and sales representative for Opekta: she traveled all over the country, telling about pectin at home exhibitions and going door-to-door. When Miep had been unemployed for a coule of months after having been fired at Schellekens' Embroidery and Pleating Workshop, Sienje tipped her off that Opekta was looking for a replacement for one of the office workers. Miep jumped at the opporunity, was hired and grew to become Otto Frank's support and cofidant.[3] 

Louis Blitz left for South Africa in September 1933 to make a new living there. He was hired by the Wynberg Diamond Cutting Works, located in Wynberg, Cape Town. The rest of the family arrived in Cape Town a few months later.[4]

Source personal data.[5] Address: Gaaspstraat 25-I.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem, Burgerlijke stand van de gemeente Amsterdam, Archiefdeel van (dubbele) registers van huwelijken v..., archief 358.6, inventaris­num­mer 2446, 22-01-1920, Huwelijksakten van de gemeente Amsterdam, 1920, aktenummer Reg. 5 fol. 30: Huwelijksakte Louis Blitz en Sientje Boas.
  2. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Woningkaarten (toegangsnummer 5445): Woningkaart Gaaspstraat 25.
  3. ^ Miep Gies & Allison Leslie Gold, Herinneringen aan Anne Frank: het verhaal van Miep Gies, de steun en toeverlaat van de familie Frank in het Achterhuis, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1988, p. 22.
  4. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Getuigenarchief Jacques Blitz: interview Jacques Blitz door Dineke Stam, Kaapstad, 11 maart 1996; Natie Finkelstein, The Blitz Family.
  5. ^ Cape Town Jewish Cemeteries Maintenance Board: Sientje Blitz (nee Boas).